3/5: Adam is dealing with his tangled family history and Vic is swept into the elves’ feuds and family drama, and too much is happening for them individually to deal with whatever is between them together. It felt a bit drawn out and overly complicated, pointing blinking neon arrows at the two men WHO LIKE EACH OTHER BUT WHO ARE FROM VERY DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND THERE’S A LOT TO THINK ABOUT OKAY??!!11 They figured it out in the last chapters only to fall into a cliffhanger (literally), so we’ll see what happens in the last book. Just like book 1, this was super simple language–not a bad thing...

3/5: A fast-paced book, easy reading with super simple language and short chapters that gave this a YA feeling. Adam is a hot mess of daddy issues, mommy issues, brother issues, ex issues, all sorts of issues. For some reason, he reminded me a LOT of Dean Winchester. (In fact, this whole thing reads like an SPN fic. 🤔) He’s supposed to be a low-powered magic user (practically a normie) but somehow he still manages to beat all the odds. I really liked the worldbuilding, the spirit realm, and how the Guardian towers were Tarot courts and the elves were manifestations of them. I also liked how the...